lucas

he/they. i am the most esoteric bitch in this sewer rn

[sacred-portal]

[sacred-portal]

I’m sorry but I love this

[ysolt]

bro i fucking hate living next to a fucking tavern they always have the worst fucking singers performing on saturdays

[ysolt]

my life is a joke i live 2 minutes from a castle in one direction and the old town market in the other. you can see remnants of the old walls in part of the town, our library used to be the medieval townhall. we have a 500 y/o fairy tree overlooking the entire valley. and i dont even have any elves to fuck

[captainglitterbuns]

[madeleine-ferguson]

David Ferrando Giraut: The series Natural Scenes.

[detectivehole]

it's just me and my eclectic vocabulary in this cold cold world

[thebonedogs]

'tiny feet in the planet garden,' wool and embroidery thread on monks cloth, 2023.

[bathroomcube]

i have the soul of a 40 year old divorced cis man

[staticspxcelover]

Johnny during the recording of Meat Is Murder on The Old Grey Whistle Test

[mybenia1]

Naples, 1954. Photographer Mario Cattaneo

[art-creature]

k thx bye / mixed media in sketchbook

[opencommunion]

The international community is responsible

For decades, Western governments attempted to “manage the conflict” in Palestine with “concern” but no accountability. Now, they are giving

"For years, we were told by diplomats that we need to reach out to the 'Israeli peace camp,' the same voices who are now calling for Gaza to be leveled. We were asked to be the perfect victim in order to deserve mere sympathy. We’ve had to convince them that we deserve to live.

Palestinians resorted to every form of non-violent resistance to attain their most basic rights to no avail. When we went to international courts, it was called 'legal terrorism,' and the very states that claim to respect international law have blocked the investigation by the International Criminal Court. Our activity at the United Nations was condemned as 'diplomatic terrorism' and blocked by Western powers at the Security Council. Legislations were introduced to counter the boycott of Israel, calling it 'economic terrorism.' The international community proved to the Palestinian people that nothing but violence works, and they are now appalled by the inevitable result. 

For 75 years, Israel was never held accountable by the international community. Instead of putting an end to Palestinian suffering and Israeli impunity, the international community has constantly rewarded Israel with more political, economic, and technological cooperation. It is also now giving Israel the green light to commit more massacres under the guise of self-defense."

[letterful]

[thelivingend]

[determinate-negation]

yiddish theatre, yiddish newspapers and other yiddish cultural stuff was illegal in israel for years and actively discouraged and attempted to make obsolete, yiddish lectures were disrupted and the israeli state translated the testimonies of holocaust survivors to hebrew rather than keep them in yiddish (the language spoken by most jewish holocaust survivors) but tell me more about how israel and zionism are saving jews and making jewish cultural identity stronger rather than destroying and devaluing jewish diasporic culture 🤔

[ayin-me-yesh]

reminder that Jews from North Africa and West Asia also often spoke dialects of Judeo-Arabic as their first language and this is still heavily repressed by the Israeli state in an effort to distance Arab Jews from Palestinians and other non-Jewish Arabs

[kavaler]

Moreover, only after the Yom Kippur war Israel allowed Holocaust survivors to openly speak about their experiences. Between 48’ and the 70’s, there was no support nor sympathy for Holocaust survivors. They were seen as weak, a “perfect example” for what a Jew or zionist shouldn’t be. The Holocaust survivors were just used as a reason to spread and justify the zionist ideology

[determinate-negation]

also around 1/3 of holocaust survivors in israel live in poverty and israelis very vocally talk about how much they look down on holocaust survivors and diaspora jews

One-third of Israeli Holocaust survivors live in poverty, advocates say

Several dozen impoverished elderly Israelis, among them Holocaust survivors, received food donations from a charity ahead of International H

[jamesusilljournal]

Preface to a dream, Alessandra Casini, 2023

[prettyfamous]

Renegades. San Francisco: Queer Life in the 1990s | Chloe Sherman | Hatje Cantz | 2023

The accompanying exhibition is on show at f3 - freiraum für fotografie in Berlin from 30 June - 3 September 2023.

[paulfrankjuliusthemonkey]

forgive me father for i have spotify link posted

[halcynth]

“My husband, photographer Michael Nye, once photographed in a West Bank Palestinian refugee camp for days, and was followed around by a little girl who wanted him to photograph her. Finally, he did — and she held up a stone with a poem etched into it. (This picture appears on the cover of my collection of poems, 19 Varieties of Gazelle — Poems of the Middle East). Through a translator, Michael understood that the poem was ‘her poem’ — that’s what she called it. We urged my dad to translate the verse, which sounded vaguely familiar, but without checking roundly enough, we quoted the translation on the book flap and said she had written the verse. Quickly, angry scholars wrote to me pointing out that the verse was from a famous Darwish poem. I felt terrible. I was meeting him for the first and last time the next week. Handing over the copy of the book sheepishly, I said: ‘Please forgive our mistake. If this book ever gets reprinted, I promise we will give the proper credit for the verse.’ He stared closely at the picture. Tears ran down his cheeks. ‘Don’t correct it,’ he said. ‘It is the goal of my life to write poems that are claimed by children.’”

— Naomi Shihab Nye, from her essay “Remembering Mahmoud Darwish”  

[onigirinora]

this is the poem